Streep: 'Not all my films are brilliant'

Meryl Streep has admitted that not all of her films have been good.

The two-time Academy Award winner, who is nominated this year for her performance in Julie & Julia, has insisted that she is content with the path her career has taken, despite not being a fan of all of her work, Contactmusic reports.

The 60-year-old actress said: "I feel very privileged, very lucky and very happy, though I don't think that every film I've ever done is brilliant.

"I'm not a producer - I just take interesting things that have come along."

Streep also said that she wanted to take a break following the release of her latest film It's Complicated.

She added: "Since finishing my last film, I feel the need to stop for a moment and breathe because I've worked so very hard in the last two and a half years.

"I'd usually make one film a year, maybe two, then two years would go by with no films and now I've just made seven back to back.

"Sometimes if you give that much you have to settle it down and let the field go fallow for one year, like the farmers do."

Streep has received 16 Oscar nominations since 1979.